Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] then [pron] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 The only time it comes in useful is when we 're talking about acting and then we have a kind of shorthand .
2 Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ?
3 They assimilate , they analyze , they consider and then they make a decision or act on things .
4 Flushed and triumphant after this orgy of extravagance , they left the store at last , keeping an eye on the time because Mabel must n't be late with the boys ' tea whatever happened and then they had a long , annoying wait at the bus-stop .
5 And some places that erm I know that in some places they have their own local way of speaking and then they speak a different way to other folk .
6 She said and then I have two weeks erm homework to mark and then we have a weeks holiday I thought well that 's two weeks
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